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NOUN: noun

Definition

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.

The NOUN tag is intended for common nouns only. See PROPN for proper nouns and PRON for pronouns.

Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

S: Common noun

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 7041 NOUN lemmas (35%), 8958 NOUN types (30%) and 58057 NOUN tokens (20%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: anno, diritto, parte, articolo, fondo, presidente, legge, paese, stato, opera

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: anni, presidente, parte, fondo, diritto, anno, legge, persone, città, proprietario

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: anno (NOUN 689, PROPN 1), diritto (NOUN 396, ADV 3, ADJ 2), fondo (NOUN 374, ADJ 2), legge (NOUN 333, VERB 1), proprietario (NOUN 254, ADJ 1), cosa (NOUN 236, PRON 147, ADV 1), vita (NOUN 177, PROPN 1), programma (NOUN 167, PROPN 1), fine (NOUN 144, ADJ 5), cittadino (NOUN 135, ADJ 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: anni (NOUN 434, PROPN 1), parte (NOUN 326, VERB 4), diritto (NOUN 270, ADV 3), legge (NOUN 240, VERB 7), proprietario (NOUN 213, ADJ 1), stato (AUX 218, VERB 118, NOUN 95), lavoro (NOUN 172, VERB 2), vita (NOUN 174, PROPN 1), governo (NOUN 89, VERB 1), cosa (NOUN 154, PRON 98, ADV 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.272262 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.488836).

The 1st highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “professore”: prof., professor, professore, professoressa, professoresse, professori.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “numero”: n., nn., numeri, numero, n°.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “pagina”: pag., pagg., pagina, pagine, pp..

NOUN occurs with 5 features: it-feat/Gender (56162; 97% instances), it-feat/Number (53570; 92% instances), it-feat/Degree (10; 0% instances), it-feat/Tense (1; 0% instances), it-feat/VerbForm (1; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 8 feature-value pairs: Degree=Abs, Degree=Cmp, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part

NOUN occurs with 14 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (20296 tokens). Examples: presidente, fondo, diritto, anno, proprietario, stato, caso, art., tempo, mondo

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: it-dep/nmod (31939; 55% instances), it-dep/dobj (7926; 14% instances), it-dep/nsubj (7262; 13% instances), it-dep/conj (4877; 8% instances), it-dep/root (2218; 4% instances), it-dep/nsubjpass (1825; 3% instances), it-dep/compound (653; 1% instances), it-dep/appos (603; 1% instances), it-dep/xcomp (318; 1% instances), it-dep/vocative (93; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (91; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (70; 0% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (54; 0% instances), it-dep/case (39; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (39; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (26; 0% instances), it-dep/acl (11; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (8; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (2; 0% instances), it-dep/amod (1; 0% instances), it-dep/cc (1; 0% instances), it-dep/csubjpass (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (28941; 50% instances), NOUN (22127; 38% instances), ROOT (2218; 4% instances), ADJ (1934; 3% instances), PRON (1052; 2% instances), PROPN (1044; 2% instances), NUM (405; 1% instances), ADV (203; 0% instances), SYM (35; 0% instances), ADP (31; 0% instances), AUX (21; 0% instances), X (13; 0% instances), DET (11; 0% instances), PUNCT (7; 0% instances), SCONJ (6; 0% instances), CONJ (5; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances)

2226 (4%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

12106 (21%) NOUN nodes have one child.

19330 (33%) NOUN nodes have two children.

24395 (42%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 68.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 36 different relations: it-dep/det (39792; 28% instances), it-dep/case (32048; 22% instances), it-dep/nmod (21783; 15% instances), it-dep/amod (15014; 11% instances), it-dep/punct (9653; 7% instances), it-dep/conj (4796; 3% instances), it-dep/cc (3602; 3% instances), it-dep/acl (3158; 2% instances), it-dep/nummod (2852; 2% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (2397; 2% instances), it-dep/det:poss (1840; 1% instances), it-dep/advmod (1446; 1% instances), it-dep/cop (1020; 1% instances), it-dep/nsubj (719; 1% instances), it-dep/compound (653; 0% instances), it-dep/appos (478; 0% instances), it-dep/det:predet (367; 0% instances), it-dep/advcl (322; 0% instances), it-dep/mark (181; 0% instances), it-dep/neg (151; 0% instances), it-dep/aux (103; 0% instances), it-dep/parataxis (65; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (49; 0% instances), it-dep/csubj (42; 0% instances), it-dep/ccomp (31; 0% instances), it-dep/dobj (16; 0% instances), it-dep/vocative (12; 0% instances), it-dep/name (7; 0% instances), it-dep/discourse (6; 0% instances), it-dep/auxpass (5; 0% instances), it-dep/nsubjpass (4; 0% instances), it-dep/expl (2; 0% instances), it-dep/csubjpass (1; 0% instances), it-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), it-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances), it-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: DET (42003; 29% instances), ADP (31791; 22% instances), NOUN (22127; 16% instances), ADJ (15226; 11% instances), PUNCT (9654; 7% instances), VERB (7016; 5% instances), PROPN (5137; 4% instances), CONJ (3579; 3% instances), NUM (3051; 2% instances), ADV (1916; 1% instances), PRON (753; 1% instances), SCONJ (181; 0% instances), AUX (108; 0% instances), X (48; 0% instances), SYM (21; 0% instances), INTJ (7; 0% instances)


NOUN in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]